The reason I believe that emotion is a higher state than intellect is that chess computers don't enjoy winning.

Love doesn't need your permission, that's what hope is for.

Knowledge is the physical manifestation of consciousness.

The exchange rate for ideas is infinite.

No matter what you want to do, you still have to start where you are.

Luck often sides with the able.

If time were perfectly symmetric, gravity wouldn't exist.

Emergent behaviors rely on computational geometry and scale.

When our theories continually move us into more and more complicated explanations then, it is certain that we are moving in the wrong direction.

Three dimensional time converts scalar waves into transverse waves.

Spirituality is not an achievement it is a relationship.

I’d like to have enough time and quiet To think about absolutely nothing, To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.

Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.

Cleveland is a really hard place, it's a very creative place, it feeds you creatively, but it's a very hard place to make a living creatively.

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.

A good thing can't be cruel.

There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans

All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?

I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.

If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.